Dr. Dimitrios A. Karras received the Diploma and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree (with honors) in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1985 and 1995, respectively. Currently, Dr. Dimitrios A. Karras is a professor in Data and AI Science, Digital and autonomous Intelligent Systems with the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, as well as adjunct Prof. Dr. with the GLA University, Mathura, India and EPOKA & CIT universities, Computer Engineering, Tirana. He has served in universities and research institutes for more than 25 years and published more than 75 refereed journal papers and more than 185 research papers in International refereed Conferences in the fields of intelligent and distributed/multi-agent systems, pattern recognition, image/signal processing and neural networks. He has served as program/general chair at several international conferences and, moreover as editor at several international journals in the fields of signal, image, communication and automation systems. He has been cited in more than 2500 research papers, being in the highest 10% of worldwide researchers.